Spring 2025

Words as tools for discovering properties of the human mind. How words are formed of and form various units. Experiments exploring judgments about word interpretation.

Discourse patterns among diverse social groups in institutional and interpersonal settings; interrelationships among language practices and gender, socioeconomic status, ethnicity; social structures and cultural values as reflected in language policies and practices.

Familiarization with ASL and fingerspelling. Covers visual and gestural communication, comprehension through receptive language skills, basic conversational proficiency, general insights into American Deaf culture.

Increased development of inflectional and non-manual behavior patterns presented with incorporation of selected aspects of Deaf culture and community within receptive and expressive conversations.

Empirical study of the sounds and structures of human language;syntax and semantics; language change; linguistic universals.

Study of human linguistic competence and technologies that simulate it. Phonetics, vibration and signal processing, speech recognition, neural networks.

A survey of topics in phonology and morphology.

Advanced study of topics in syntax.

Language and society: theory and methods in sociolinguistics; dimensions of language variation including gender, identity, class, age, region; personal-level interactions to national-level language policies.

Theories of second language acquisition in children and adults; comparison of first and second language acquisition including psychological, social, and individual factors.

Familiarization with the articulation and transcription of speech sounds. Also vocal tract anatomy, acoustics, speech technology, non-English sounds, perception. Includes laboratory exercises.

Principles of cognitive development, learning, and motivation applied to the development of literacy; includes tutoring a child 2 hours per week. Prerequisite: PSYC 336L.

Topics of current interest at the crossroads of philosophy of language, philosophy of mind and linguistics.

Elicitation techniques and methodological principles; recording and analysis of phonological, syntactic and semantic structures; practical approaches to procedures used in urban and rural settings.

Introduction to modern neural network approaches to natural language processing, based on Deep Learning. Recursive and recurrent neural networks; backpropagation; Ngram models.

Individual research and readings. Not available for graduate credit.

Writing of the honors thesis. Registration is restricted to honors students.

Professional development in phonetics and phonology. Skills workshops, discussion of emerging research in the literature, and internal and external presentations of work in progress.

Professional development in syntax and semantics. Skills workshops, discussion of emerging research in the literature, and internal and external presentations of work in progress.

Professional development in psycholinguistics. Skills workshops, discussion of emerging research in the literature, and internal and external presentations of work in progress.

Traditional views of phonology; generative phonology; current developments in phonological research and theory.

Principles and comparison of modern theories of grammar with special reference to syntax.

Intensive work in semantic theory, in preparation for a research specialization in the area.

Recording and analysis of a living language as employed by a native speaker of that language.

Acquisition of grammatical, discourse, and conversational competence; strategies and structures.

Current issues in psycholinguistic theory.

Research leading to the master's degree. Maximum units which may be applied to the degree to be determined by the department. Graded CR/NC.

Maximum units which may be applied to the degree to be determined by the department.

Topics in quantitataive methods in linguistics research, e.g., covariance structure analysis, multi-dimensional scaling, log linear model, meta-analysis.

Readings in phonetic theory and current research as the framework for a discussion-oriented class.

Research leading to the doctorate. Maximum units which may be applied to the degree to be determined by the department. Graded CR/NC.

Credit on acceptance of dissertation. Graded CR/NC.

Credit on acceptance of dissertation. Graded CR/NC.

Credit on acceptance of dissertation. Graded CR/NC.

Credit on acceptance of dissertation. Graded CR/NC.

Credit on acceptance of dissertation. Graded CR/NC.